WITH

MOORE AND WELLINGTON

DURING

THE PENINSULAR WAR

ORIGINAL AND COMPILED.

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.

TROY, N. Y.:

PRESS OF PRESCOTT & WILSON, CCXXV RIVER-STREET.

1847.

BODLEIAN

1 11 1979

P

LIBRARY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by

ANTHONY HAMILTON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New-York.

LABEL 349808

HAMILTON'S CAMPAIGN

WITH MOORE AND WELLINGTON.

AT the request of a large circle of acquaintances and friends, as well as from my own choice, I offer to my numerous readers (as I hope they may be) a brief and unvarnished account of my humble life and adventures.

I was born on the 1st of January, 1779, in the town and parish of Raphoe, County of Donegall, in the North of Ireland.

My parents were much respected and were descendants of some of the first and best families that early settled in that part of the Island.

On my father's side I was a protestant, and on the part of my mother a catholic; suffice to say, the whole family went with mother to the mass, which left me a Roman Catholic.

My father had a good freehold property and was well to live; he died when I was quite young, which deprived me of the means of an early edu